English: White truffle; Piedmont truffle; Alba truffle.
Italian: Trifola d'Alba Madonna.
Clades:
Tuberaceae,
Pezizales, Pezizomycotina;
AscomycotaRegion Piedmont, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Italy; Drome France.
Habitat: growing symbiotically with oak, hazel, poplar, beech.
Use: white truffles are very highly esteemed, the most valuable on the market.
MycologyFruiting body: 12 cm diameter; 500 g; flesh is pale cream or brown with white marbling; fruiting in autumn.
Smell: penetrating, stinks, heavy, thick air-sticky, intoxicating, all-covering, fading everything else away, dizzying.
Texture: doughy, sticky, powdery, beguiling.